LCFC 3-4 Southampton, post-match thread

[RGFox]

24 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

I still can’t quite believe what I witnessed. 

Initially I was like...unbelievable then realised lcfc 25/26 totally believable imagine lumping money on saints at half time

[Aleksz]

3 minutes ago, Twitcher said:

What was the message at half-time? It shoild have been more of the same, go and get six. Got to blame Kingy. We stood off them. Reminded me of 

They stood off because they were out of gas. They’re brittle both physically and mentally. 

[splinterdream]

For me kingy missed the issues, we could have changed Thomas and Ricardo at 60 or earlier as we looked leggy and needed to stop the balls coming in from wide as they were bullying in the box, and both full backs leaving too much space,  it made no sense bringing on ayew when we had a young hungry Richards on the bench, but even daka was doing a better job job up top. Kingy made mistakes tactically tonight but he’s working with a threadbare squad. Get our injured players back and it’ll be different, but will it be too late?

[ozvaldo]

There isn’t one player that I actively like. 
The ‘board’ are a ****ing joke. 
I’ve never felt so detached from the club. 
It’s all so painfully shallow and soulless. 

[Thequickbrownfox]

As Alan Partridge would say, "Flatley my dear, I don't Riverdance."

[honeybradger]

Those of you that defended the collapse in 19/20 saying "oh we still finished 5th" despite the lack of professionalism on display.

 

This is what normalisation and acceptance of those performances leads to.

 

We can moan about the hierarchy of the club but the complacency of the fans has played a factor as well. There was a belief that "we made it" and for years we weren't allowed to call out gutless displays for what they were because "we were in league one once".

 

Well now we've got what you wished for, the standards have dropped and we're back to being small fry on the brink of relegation to league one again.

Edited 11 February by honeybradger

[CPW]

IMO, how fans  choose to act at the end of a game is their perogative. You may not like or agree with booing, abusive hand gestures or clapping etc but I don’t think you have the right to name call or be abusive to your own fans. Mocking other fans of your team is not a good idea however angry or disappointed you are. Some fans think their response is the right and only way to be. 

 

 

 

 

[Foxin_Mad]

I saw some people clap that shit honestly, clap. There was nothing in that 2nd half performance from a bunch of highly paid supposed athletes that deserved a clap

[bovril]

18 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Those of you that defended the collapse in 19/20 saying "oh we still finished 5th" despite the lack of professionalism on display.

 

This is what normalisation and acceptance of those performances leads to.

 

We can moan about the hierarchy of the club but the complacency of the fans has played a factor as well. There was a belief that "we made it" and for years we weren't allowed to call out gutless displays for what they were because "we were in league one once".

 

Well now we've got what you wished for, the standards have dropped and we're back to being small fry on the brink of relegation to league one again.

We were all quarantined at home when we finished 5th 19/20, I'm not sure what you want people to have done. Gone out and protested? Or waited at least until the next time we could go to a game, the 2021 cup final. 

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

Tonight is the most annoyed I think I've ever been about football. I've had a lot of apathy this season but dared to think "maybe the cloud is actually lifting" after the first half.

 

Pathetic for a man in my 40s with kids and a serious job, but I actually can't get to sleep after that.

 

Hopefully this can be some sort of a "rock bottom" moment. Other big setbacks have become catalysts in hindsight.

 

I don't think we have the brains in the boardroom or the balls on the pitch to make this one of them.

 

Hire the best manager you can find in the next 48 hours and sort this ****ing mess out. I'd love it to be Nigel Pearson but just get somebody in who knows how to be an actual manager.

Edited 11 February by LeePhilpottsBaldSpot

[ourla]

From what I heard Southampton were dog awful in that first off.

It wasn't even that we suddenly played brilliant.

[Dan]

I just don't see any way back from that. Even for this team that was extraordinary.

 

I'd be surprised if we won another game this season. Forget survival. How could you possibly trust them to get a result after a game like that?

 

Nobody else in the league is capable of that. Oxford, Blackburn, West Brom, Portsmouth. They're piss poor teams. But they're not as bad as we are.

 

Chansiri is the only reason we won't finish 24th.

[LeicsFox]

Genuinely cant get my head around what i witnessed tonight. How anyone can clap that off is beyond me. Some sort of twisted joke? 

[Maverick Heights]

2 minutes ago, LeicsFox said:

Genuinely cant get my head around what i witnessed tonight. How anyone can clap that off is beyond me. Some sort of twisted joke? 

Tell me they weren't clapping seriously?

[kingfox]

2am but fvck it, I need a much needed rant. 
 

So many times in recent years, I end up feeling nothing after a defeat, normally I couldn’t give a shit, because that’s how the club have made me feel for far too long, detached and unbothered. But what we witnessed tonight and the manner of it, this is the angriest I’ve felt since that 3-2 capitulation against Tottenham.

 

Tonight after their fourth goal went in I just laughed, you just knew it was going to happen. 
 

Seriously, what has this club become? The mentality throughout this club from Top, Rudkin all the way down to the players is rotten. On the pitch, we’ve had some mentally weak teams in my lifetime, but these bunch of frauds are the worst I’ve ever seen. 
 

What Top, Rudkin and Glover(He deserves plenty of criticism) have assembled is an absolute fvcking mess. 
 

Ricardo Pereira - A great servant for Leicester City, in his prime one of the best right-backs we’ve ever had, but unfortunately he’s finished. He has also proven this season that he is no leader, having him as captain and the other experienced players around him, just shows how poor our so called “leadership” group is. 
 

Caleb Okoli - About £13 million we paid for him, another over priced mistake. I still stand by the fact that he was clearly an agent led signing, as he was under the same agency as Steve Cooper. 
 

Luke Thomas - On what planet do you give him a new four-year contract. The worst contract decision our hierarchy have made.

 

Harry Winks - Didn’t want to be here, now is back in the fold. That just epitomises how broken this club is. 
 

Oliver Skipp - He’s shown improvements at times this season, but we all know paying £20+ million for him was a huge mistake. 
 

Stephy Mavididi - “Get your popcorn ready, we gonna have fun this szn”… Fun  

 

Jordan Ayew - From a legendary number 9, to one of the most pathetic number 9’s in the clubs history. Just epitomises how shit our recruitment has been. 
 

Add to them Jannik Vestergaard(15 million), Patson Daka(23 million), Victor Kristiansen(17 million), a 33 year old Bobby Reid and we still have Hamza Choudhury on our books.

 

All that work to assemble a squad full of unlikeable frauds. And to make matters worse, all that money wasted on transfer fees and wages, left us in such a mess that we can only manage loans. Not to worry though, Joe Aribo is bound to rescue us. 
 

Now that’s off my chest, time for some Mirtazapine.

Edited 11 February by kingfox

[shailen_patel4]

38 minutes ago, kingfox said:

2am but fvck it, I need a much needed rant. 
 

So many times in recent years, I end up feeling nothing after a defeat, normally I couldn’t give a shit, because that’s how the club have made me feel for far too long, detached and unbothered. But what we witnessed tonight and the manner of it, this is the angriest I’ve felt since that 3-2 capitulation against Tottenham.

 

Tonight after their fourth goal went in I just laughed, you just knew it was going to happen. 
 

Seriously, what has this club become? The mentality throughout this club from Top, Rudkin all the way down to the players is rotten. On the pitch, we’ve had some mentally weak teams in my lifetime, but these bunch of frauds are the worst I’ve ever seen. 
 

What Top, Rudkin and Glover(He deserves plenty of criticism) have assembled is an absolute fvcking mess. 
 

Ricardo Pereira - A great servant for Leicester City, in his prime one of the best right-backs we’ve ever had, but unfortunately he’s finished. He has also proven this season that he is no leader, having him as captain and the other experienced players around him, just shows how poor our so called “leadership” group is. 
 

Caleb Okoli - About £13 million we paid for him, another over priced mistake. I still stand by the fact that he was clearly an agent led signing, as he was under the same agency as Steve Cooper. 
 

Luke Thomas - On what planet do you give him a new four-year contract. The worst contract decision our hierarchy have made.

 

Harry Winks - Didn’t want to be here, now is back in the fold. That just epitomises how broken this club is. 
 

Oliver Skipp - He’s shown improvements at times this season, but we all know paying £20+ million for him was a huge mistake. 
 

Stephy Mavididi - “Get your popcorn ready, we gonna have fun this szn”… Fun  

 

Jordan Ayew - From a legendary number 9, to one of the most pathetic number 9’s in the clubs history. Just epitomises how shit our recruitment has been. 
 

Add to them Jannik Vestergaard(15 million), Patson Daka(23 million), Victor Kristiansen(17 million), a 33 year old Bobby Reid and we still have Hamza Choudhury on our books.

 

All that work to assemble a squad full of unlikeable frauds. And to make matters worse, all that money wasted on transfer fees and wages, left us in such a mess that we can only manage loans. Not to worry though, Joe Aribo is bound to rescue us. 
 

Now that’s off my chest, time for some Mirtazapine.

Bit late for mirt gonna be asleep till 1pm 🤣

[Phenom]

I don’t even watch anymore but I’m not surprised. I will not hope until King Power is out.

[Lambert09]

3 hours ago, ourla said:

From what I heard Southampton were dog awful in that first off.

It wasn't even that we suddenly played brilliant.

Not sure that would be fair. We actually looked very good and there was great effort all over the park. But the second half the effort dropped off a cliff, everyone looked exhausted and the changes made everything worse. 
 

as soon as they got one, it was one of those games that you just felt that it was coming.  Similar to the Middlesbrough game where we just dropped further and further back and you knew that the inevitable was coming. 
 

 

Edited 11 February by Lambert09

[Beliall]

i cant believe we scored 3 goals. 

[Percy Thrower]

Went to bed - pleasantly surprised. 
Woke up - Honestly just laughed on my own for a minute when I picked up my phone. 

There are no words. 

[Raj]

Some of you lot were thinking the players were the messiah at half time, licking them  up like a new puppy.

 

You should have expected something like this.

 

They are deckchairs, fold easily, no substance.

 

Spineless 

[waddadamadda]

Well imagine my surprise this morning. Teenager went with her dad and I stayed at home. I fell asleep around half time all happy thinking that my Leicester were back and had some fight in them. And then my alarm went off this and I saw the notifications. Wow. How on earth did it all go so wrong……

[Kinowe Soorie]

This is the worst defence I’ve ever seen. They cannot defend against a simple ball in to the box. Whoever scouted Okoli needs to be sacked on the spot, you would literally find a better defender in non league football.

You could see them putting us under pressure, and when the first one went in, the writing was on the wall.

The lack of desire to be first to the ball, winning your challenge, not tracking players, knock zonal marking on the head, lack of leadership. Ricardo is the worst captain we’ve ever had. The fitness is diabolical, the stupid fouls that Ayew and Thomas give away. 
There are so many things very wrong with this side, I’m not sure if any manager in the world could sort out this shambolic mess?

They need an experienced manager in now, to give us any slight chance of a recovery.

 

[phoneticerror]

6 hours ago, splinterdream said:

For me kingy missed the issues, we could have changed Thomas and Ricardo at 60 or earlier as we looked leggy and needed to stop the balls coming in from wide as they were bullying in the box, and both full backs leaving too much space,  it made no sense bringing on ayew when we had a young hungry Richards on the bench, but even daka was doing a better job job up top. Kingy made mistakes tactically tonight but he’s working with a threadbare squad. Get our injured players back and it’ll be different, but will it be too late?

He did make tactical mistakes and he apologised and took ownership of those. He’s inexperienced. HOWEVER, that team have demonstrated that they can play and also how they can switch off and be dog dirt. We stopped fighting for a fourth goal. So many people have said our squad are low on confidence - please! They’re pretty arrogant and lazy which is our biggest downfall.

[damolcfc]

2 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Not sure that would be fair. We actually looked very good and there was great effort all over the park. But the second half the effort dropped off a cliff, everyone looked exhausted and the changes made everything worse. 
 

as soon as they got one, it was one of those games that you just felt that it was coming.  Similar to the Middlesbrough game where we just dropped further and further back and you knew that the inevitable was coming. 
 

 

It's the half time hot chocolate,  marshmallow and sprinkles 

Think it makes them sleepy